Issue 2/2024
Content (39 Articles)
Helicobacter pylori and oral–gut microbiome: clinical implications
Maged T. Elghannam, Moataz H. Hassanien, Yosry A. Ameen, Emad A. Turky, Gamal M. ELattar, Ahmed A. ELRay, Mohammed D. ELTalkawy
Odontogenic infections in the antibiotic era: approach to diagnosis, management, and prevention
Yiting Lou, Zheyuan Sun, Haiying Ma, Danna Cao, Mouyuan Sun, Qianting Wang, Jingyu Wang, Qunhao Zhuo, Ran Tao, Binbin Ying, Yu Liu, Mengfei Yu, Huiming Wang
Cerebral phaeohyphomycosis due to Cladophialophora bantiana: case report and systematic review of cases
Vithiya Ganesan, Vinaykumar Hallur, S. Velvizhi, T. Rajendran
New advances in management and treatment of cardiac implantable electronic devices infections
Alessandro Russo, Riccardo Serraino, Francesca Serapide, Enrico Maria Trecarichi, Carlo Torti
EG.5 (Eris) and BA.2.86 (Pirola) two new subvariants of SARS-CoV-2: a new face of old COVID-19
Abdolreza Esmaeilzadeh, Fereshteh Ebrahimi, Armin Jahani Maleki, Amir Siahmansouri
Infiltration to infection: key virulence players of Helicobacter pylori pathogenicity
Arghyadeep Bhattacharjee, Om Saswat Sahoo, Ahana Sarkar, Saurabh Bhattacharya, Rukhsana Chowdhury, Samarjit Kar, Oindrilla Mukherjee
Phage therapy as a glimmer of hope in the fight against the recurrence or emergence of surgical site bacterial infections
Majid Taati Moghadam, Ali Mojtahedi, Shakiba Salamy, Razieh Shahbazi, Naghmeh Satarzadeh, Majid Delavar, Mohammad Taghi Ashoobi
Real-time, random-access organ screening for carbapenem-resistant organisms (CRO) reduces CRO-associated, donor-derived infection mortality in lung transplant recipients
Wen-Yong Zhou, Lei Shen, Jian-Xin Shi, Xing-Hui Gao, Jun Yang, Shi-Jie Fu, Xu-Feng Pan, Min-Fang Zhu, Shen Zhang, Chong Zhang, Feng Li, Hai Zhang, Feng Yao, Fred C. Tenover, Yi-Wei Tang, Wen-Tao Fang
Understanding the biases to sepsis surveillance and quality assurance caused by inaccurate coding in administrative health data
Daniel Schwarzkopf, Norman Rose, Carolin Fleischmann-Struzek, Beate Boden, Heike Dorow, Andreas Edel, Marcus Friedrich, Falk A. Gonnert, Jürgen Götz, Matthias Gründling, Markus Heim, Kirill Holbeck, Ulrich Jaschinski, Christian Koch, Christian Künzer, Khanh Le Ngoc, Simone Lindau, Ngoc B. Mehlmann, Jan Meschede, Patrick Meybohm, Dominique Ouart, Christian Putensen, Michael Sander, Jens-Christian Schewe, Peter Schlattmann, Götz Schmidt, Gerhard Schneider, Claudia Spies, Ferdinand Steinsberger, Kai Zacharowski, Sebastian Zinn, Konrad Reinhart
Ceftazidime-avibactam alone or in combination with Aztreonam versus Polymyxins in the management of carbapenem-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae nosocomial Infections (CAPRI study): a retrospective cohort study from South India
Racha Amarthya Sree, Anand Gupta, Nitin Gupta, Sadhana Veturi, L. Siva Kumar Reddy, Masrath Begum, Etrouth Shravani, HariPriya Reddy Challa, Satti Santhosh Reddy, Adarsh Singamsetty, Murthy Arumilli, P. Naveen Reddy, Praveen Kumar Tirlangi
Clinical and epidemiological factors causing longer SARS-CoV 2 viral shedding: the results from the CoviCamp cohort
Pierantonio Grimaldi, Antonio Russo, Mariantonietta Pisaturo, Paolo Maggi, Enrico Allegorico, Ivan Gentile, Vincenzo Sangiovanni, Annamaria Rossomando, Rossella Pacilio, Giosuele Calabria, Raffaella Pisapia, Canio Carriero, Alfonso Masullo, Elio Manzillo, Grazia Russo, Roberto Parrella, Giuseppina Dell’Aquila, Michele Gambardella, Antonio Ponticiello, Lorenzo Onorato, Nicola Coppola, Caterina Monari, Caterina Sagnelli, Fabio Giuliano Numis, Carolina Rescigno, Angelo Salomone Megna, Vincenzo Esposito, Rodolfo Punzi, Francesco Maria Fusco, Giovanni Porta, Margherita Macera, Federica Calò, Angela Cascone, Gianfranca Stornaiuolo, Maria Stanzione, Paola Medusa, Carro Nicola, Andrea Dell’aquila, Simona Imbriani, Ricozzi Carmen, Klodian Gjeloshi, Roberta Astorri, Anna Maria Rossomando, Mariana Di Lorenzo, Giorgio Bosso, Claudia Serra, Ferdinando Dello Vicario, Valentina Minerva, Giulia De Angelis, Stefania De Pascalis, Salvatore Martini, Giovanni Di Caprio, Addolorata Masiello, Domenica Di Costanzo, Mariano Mazza, Vincenzo Bianco, Valeria Gentile, Antonio Riccardo Buonomo, Biagio Pinchera, Riccardo Scotto
Validation of risk scores for prediction of severe pneumonia in kidney transplant recipients hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia
Moritz Müller-Plathe, Bilgin Osmanodja, Georg Barthel, Klemens Budde, Kai-Uwe Eckardt, Martin Kolditz, Martin Witzenrath
Coinfections and antimicrobial treatment in a cohort of falciparum malaria in a non-endemic country: a 10-year experience
Claus P. Küpper-Tetzel, Raja Idris, Johanna Kessel, Gundolf Schüttfort, Sebastian Hoehl, Niko Kohmer, Christiana Graf, Michael Hogardt, Silke Besier, Thomas A. Wichelhaus, Maria J. G. T. Vehreschild, Christoph Stephan, Nils Wetzstein
Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis—how common and how severe is it as a complication of malaria? Retrospective case series and review of the literature
Hans Martin Orth, Dorothea Wiemer, Sophie Schneitler, Andreas Schönfeld, Martha Charlotte Holtfreter, Smaranda Gliga, Andre Fuchs, Frieder Pfäfflin, Claudia Maria Denkinger, Sven Kalbitz, Carlos Fritzsche, Marc P. Hübner, Janina Trauth, Björn-Erik Ole Jensen, Tom Luedde, Torsten Feldt
Rate and predictors of blood culture positivity after antibiotic administration: a prospective single-center study
Lior Zornitzki, Lana Anuk, Shir Frydman, Nira Morag-Koren, David Zahler, Ophir Freund, Roni Biran, Yael Liron, Luba Tau, Joseph Zvi Tchebiner, Haitam Katash, Gil Bornstein
Self-sampled multi-anatomic site testing for uncovering the community burden of undiagnosed Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae infection in men who have sex with men
Ngai Sze Wong, Denise Pui-Chung Chan, Sze Long Chung, Tsz Ho Kwan, Krystal Chi-Kei Lee, Chi Keung Kwan, Shui Shan Lee
Sex differences in infective endocarditis: a Danish nationwide study
Anna Stahl, Lauge Østergaard, Eva Havers-Borgersen, Jarl Emanuel Strange, Marianne Voldstedlund, Lars Køber, Emil Loldrup Fosbøl
Blood T cell phenotypes correlate with fatigue severity in post-acute sequelae of COVID-19
Isabell Pink, Jan K. Hennigs, Louisa Ruhl, Andrea Sauer, Lennart Boblitz, Marie Huwe, Jan Fuge, Christine S. Falk, Thomas Pietschmann, Martina de Zwaan, Antje Prasse, Stefan Kluge, Hans Klose, Marius M. Hoeper, Tobias Welte
High burden of acute respiratory tract infections leading to hospitalization at German pediatric hospitals: fall/winter 2022–2023
Maren Doenhardt, Jakob P. Armann, Natalie Diffloth, Christin Gano, Josephine Schneider, Dominik T. Schneider, Tobias Tenenbaum, Andreas Trotter, Reinhard Berner, Martina Aderhold, Jürgen Althaus, Theresa Andree, Tobias Ankermann, Nils Apel, Stefan Arens, Ulrich Aumann, Thomas Austgen, Rebekka Baier, Lisa Baresi, Marcel Baschin, Stefanie Beil, Christiane Bell, Giulia Bender, Bernd Bergmann, Sonja Bernlochner, Silke Bettinger, Adina Biering, Leonie Block, Henning Böhme, Carsten Bölke, Timon Boßlet, Reinhard Bullmann, Iryna Dobrianska, Christoph Ehrsam, Martin Enders, Anna-Lisa Erler, Inge Evers, Andreas Fiedler, Elisa Fingerloos, Veronika Galajda Pavlíková, Lars Geerdts, Katharina Glas, Julia Gottschalk, Anne Grimm, Katrin Gröger, Volkmar Grosse, Anneke Grotheer, Katharina Hecker, Maik Heine, Georg Heubner, Aneta Horakova, Jennifer Horn, Daniel Hubert, Kristin Jähnert, Simone Jedwilayties, Andrea Jehn, Sumathy Jeyaweerasinkam, Jasmin Joiko, Hermann Kalhoff, Marcus Kania, Veronika Kautzky, Thomas Keller, Margit Kellerer, Mandy Kersten, Karoline kinkelin, Andreas Klein, Christof Kluthe, Louise Kobelt, Susanne Kremsreiter, Benno Kretzschmar, Merten Kriewitz, Sophia Kuhl, Gerrit Lautner, Vincenzo Leone, Klaus Lohmeier, Daniela Lubitz, Sabine Mahncke, Anja Mayer, Peter Meißner, Egbert Meyer, Marko Mohorovicic, Barbara Müksch, Barbara Naust, Michael Nippes, Esra Özdemir, Denisa Penfold, Ursula Pindur, Daniela Pütz, Anke Rappen, Friedrich Reichert, Marie-Charlotte Rosahl, Miriam Ryba, Shahana Safarova, Asimina Salapata, Christoph Schick, Anna Schlegel, Norbert Schmeja, Juliane Schmid, Robert Schmitz, Dominik Schneider, Florian Schneider, Anna Schrafstetter, Leonie Schulteß, Johannes Schulze, Kerstin Schunke, Lavinia Seidel, M Ghiath Shamdeen, Josef Sonntag, Michael Steidl, Tobias Stiefel, Julia Tabatabai, Maren Thurner, Sandra Trapp, Mirjam Ungerechts, Manja Unrath, Alijda Ingeborg van den Heuvel, Kai Vehse, Joshua Verleysdonk, Christian von Schnakenburg, Simone Wagner, Andreas Wemhöner, Barbara Wichmann, Christiane Maria Wiethoff, Thomas Wollbrink, Andreas Wroblewski, Ulrich Zügge
Preoperative dental screening can reduce periprosthetic infections of hip and knee endoprostheses in the first month after surgery: results of a cohort study
Fabian Fenske, Benjamin Kujat, Leah Krause, Stephan Meyer, Anna-Katharina Sander, Jaqueline Repmann, Michael Neuhaus, Rainer Haak, Andreas Roth, Bernd Lethaus, Dirk Ziebolz, Gerhard Schmalz
Evaluation and clinical practice of pathogens and antimicrobial resistance genes of BioFire FilmArray Pneumonia panel in lower respiratory tract infections
Jinru Gong, Jiasheng Yang, Lihong Liu, Xiaoxuan Chen, Guangyu Yang, Yaowei He, Ruilin Sun
Prospective assessment of the frequency of and risk factors for bleeding events in patients treated with cefazolin
Emmanuelle Gras, Yohann Tran, Benjamin Kably, Agnès Lillo-Lelouet, Thibaut Caruba, Brigitte Sabatier, Manon Launay, Eliane Billaud, David M. Smadja, Nicolas Gendron, David Lebeaux
Experience with dalbavancin use in various gram-positive infections within Aberdeen Royal Infirmary OPAT service
James C McSorley, Darshini Reyes, Ivan Tonna, Vhairi Bateman
Complexity of patients with or without infectious disease consultation in tertiary-care hospitals in Germany
C. Meyer-Schwickerath, C. Weber, D. Hornuss, S. Rieg, F. Hitzenbichler, S. Hagel, J. Ankert, A. Hennigs, J. Glossmann, N. Jung
Clinical presentation, management, and outcome of suspected central nervous system infections in Indonesia: a prospective cohort study
Kartika Maharani, Sofiati Dian, Ahmad Rizal Ganiem, Darma Imran, Riwanti Estiasari, Edwin Ardiansyah, Putri Widya Andini, Fransisca Kristina, David Pangeran, Lidya Chaidir, Bachti Alisjahbana, Andriansjah Rukmana, Ardiana Kusumaningrum, Robiatul Adawiyah, Decy Subekti, Evy Yunihastuti, Reyhan Eddy Yunus, Lia Waslia, Jakko van Ingen, Arjan van Laarhoven, Raph L. Hamers, Reinout van Crevel
Development and validation of a respiratory syncytial virus multiplex immunoassay
Patrick Marsall, Madeleine Fandrich, Johanna Griesbaum, Manuela Harries, Berit Lange, Stephanie Ascough, Pete Dayananda, Christopher Chiu, Jonathan Remppis, Tina Ganzenmueller, Hanna Renk, Monika Strengert, Nicole Schneiderhan-Marra, Alex Dulovic
A longitudinal prospective study of active tuberculosis in a Western Europe setting: insights and findings
Arantxa Romero-Tamarit, Xavier Vallès, María Munar-García, Juan Espinosa-Pereiro, Núria Saborit, Ma. Teresa Tortola, Zoran Stojanovic, Sílvia Roure, Adrián Antuori, Pere-Joan Cardona, Antoni Soriano-Arandes, Andrea Martin-Nalda, María Espiau, Maria Luiza de Souza-Galvão, Ma. Ángeles Jiménez, Antoni Noguera-Julian, Israel Molina, Xavier Casas, Marisol Domínguez-Álvarez, Neus Jové, Nino Gogichadze, Kaori L. Fonseca, Lilibeth Arias, Joan-Pau Millet, Adrián Sánchez-Montalvá, Cristina Vilaplana
Utilizing metagenomic next-generation sequencing for pathogen detection and diagnosis in lower respiratory tract infections in real-world clinical practice
Tangfeng Lv, Qi Zhao, Jia Liu, Song Wang, Weiwei Wu, Liyun Miao, Ping Zhan, Xiaoli Chen, Manman Huang, Mingxiang Ye, Qiuxiang Ou, Yeqing Zhang
AIDS-defining events among people living with HIV who have been under continuous antiretroviral therapy for more than one year, a German cohort study 1999–2018
Annemarie Pantke, Christian Kollan, Barbara Gunsenheimer-Bartmeyer, Björn-Erik Ole Jensen, Christoph Stephan, Olaf Degen, Dirk Schürmann, Tobias Kurth, Viviane Bremer, Uwe Koppe, Heribert Knechten, Petra Panstruga, Keikawus Arasteh, Michael Rittweger, Hans Wesselmann, Nikolai Menner, Ulrich Bohr, Heiko Jessen, Arne B. Jessen, Hubert Schulbin, Sascha Brand, Jan Gumprecht, Beate Weninger, Heribert Hillenbrand, Heiko Karcher, Klaus Fischer, Dietmar Schranz, Mathias Vallée, Jukka Hartikainen, Stephan Grunwald, Jörg A. Claus, Claudia Thomas, Roland Grimm, Sarah Schoor, Christiane Cordes, Reinhold Schröder, Tobias Glaunsinger, Michael Rausch, Thomas Reineke, Gordon Weinberg, Manuel Bruhy, Siegfried Köppe, Peter Kreckel, Andreas Berger, Sinah Lindemann, Norbert H. Brockmeyer, Anja Potthoff, Kathrin van Bremen, Jürgen Rockstroh, Martin Hower, Claudia Bachmann, Petra Spornraft-Ragaller, Dieter Teichmann, Björn-Erik Ole Jensen, Falk Hüttig, Stefan Esser, Pia Schenk-Westkamp, Annette Haberl, Christoph Stephan, Susanne Usadel, Matthias Müller, Janina Trauth, Alan Chavez-Valladares, Gerd Deutschinoff, Burkhard Kreft, Danica Lange, Olaf Degen, Guido Schäfer, Andreas Plettenberg, Frieder Kuhlendahl, Dorothea Wiemer, Lavinia Biemann, Knud Schewe, Christian Hoffmann, Georg Behrens, Matthias Stoll, Benjamin T. Schleenvoigt, Mathias W. Pletz, Ansgar Rieke, Stephan Schneeweiß, Stefan Scholten, Mark Oette, Peter A. Arbter, Thomas Grünewald, Jeannine Weidemann, Ines Ruck, Bernd Claus, Martin Sprinzl, Peter R. Galle, Matthias P. Ebert, Roger Vogelmann, Johannes Bogner, Ulrike Hellerer, Antoniya Todorova, Claudia Traidl-Hoffmann, Birgit Mück, Ramona Pauli, Christoph D. Spinner, Jochen Schneider, Birgit Mück, Robert Baumann, Niels Schübel, Christiane Berning, Franz Audebert, A. Trein, E. Schnaitmann, Clemens Roll, Simone Marquardt, Georg Härter, Beate Grüner, Cengiz Güler, Steve Rößler, Dirk Schürmann, Marianne Warncke, Jürgen Rockstroh, Jan-Christian Wasmuth, Svetlana Hass, Björn-Erik Ole Jensen, Cecilie Feind, Stefan Esser, Pia Schenk-Westkamp, Christoph Stephan, Annette Haberl, Peter Schott, Andreas Plettenberg, Thore Lorenzen, Frieder Kuhlendahl, Axel Adam, Thomas Buhk, Stephan Fenske, Stefan Hansen, Christian Hoffmann, Michael Sabranski, Knud Schewe, Hans-Jürgen Stellbrink, Dennis Radzuweit, Alexander Mainka, Constantin Rickassel, Olaf Degen, Guido Schäfer, Robin Scheiter, Matthias Stoll, Steve Gerschmann, Renate Beider, Heinz-August Horst, Silke Trautmann, Gerd Fätkenheuer, Jörg Janne Vehreschild, Laura Hamacher, Lennart Nicksch, Johannes Bogner, Barbara Sonntag, Oliver Pullen, Carlos Fritzsche
Clostridioides difficile recurrence in individuals with and without cancer: a Swedish population-based cohort study
Peace Mpakaniye, Annelies Boven, Steven Callens, Lars Engstrand, Erika Vlieghe, Nele Brusselaers
Characterization of blaOXA-48-carrying plasmids and small non-AMR-coding plasmids collected from Ukrainian patients
Vincent F. van Almsick, Annika Sobkowiak, Natalie Scherff, Franziska Schuler, Alexander Mellmann, Vera Schwierzeck
Population of invasive group A streptococci isolates from a German tertiary care center is dominated by the hypertoxigenic virulent M1UK genotype
Manuel Wolters, Benjamin Berinson, Nicole Degel-Brossmann, Armin Hoffmann, Rico Bluszis, Martin Aepfelbacher, Holger Rohde, Martin Christner
Rhinocerebral mucormycosis in immunocompetent patients: a case report and review of literature
Atra Ajdari, Azin Zolfagharypoor, Mohammadreza Firouzifar, Maliheh Akbarpour
Fatal pulmonary hemorrhage, pneumothorax and skin necrosis caused by IRIS to an Aspergillus flavus infection in a young patient with metamizole associated agranulocytosis
Micha Banz, Andreas Stallmach, Nikolaus Gaßler, P. Christian Schulze, Michael Fritzenwanger, Oliver Cornely, Oliver Kurzai, Mathias W. Pletz
Postpartum cryptococcosis in an HIV-negative patient
Malin Gottschling, Stefan Blaas, Florian Geismann, Christoph Lerzer, Maximilian Malfertheiner, Bernd Salzberger, Florian Hitzenbichler, Stefanie Scharf, Florian Weber, Arno Mohr
Author reply to “reporting standards for cerebrospinal fluid studies: more transparency of laboratory data is needed” by JL Frater
Susanne Dyckhoff-Shen, Mathias Bruegel, Uwe Koedel, Matthias Klein
Assessing the current epidemiological status of SARS-CoV-2 and its potential evolution
Nicola Abrescia, Maurizio D’Abbraccio, Mario De Marco, Adelaide Maddaloni
Shorter time-to-positivity and turnaround time with mycosis blood culture bottles when detecting Candida albicans
Jacqueline Färber, Achim J. Kaasch, Enrico Schalk
Correction: Evaluation and clinical practice of pathogens and antimicrobial resistance genes of BioFire FilmArray Pneumonia panel in lower respiratory tract infections
Jinru Gong, Jiasheng Yang, Lihong Liu, Xiaoxuan Chen, Guangyu Yang, Yaowei He, Ruilin Sun